Oxytocin administration attenuates stress reactivity in borderline personality disorder: A pilot study

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1418-1421

  Simeon, D ^a   Bartz, J ^b   Hamilton, H ^b   Crystal, S ^b   Braun, A ^b   Ketay, S ^b   Hollander, E ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Borderline personality disorder; Childhood trauma; Cortisol; Emotion; HPA axis; Neuropeptides; Oxytocin; Stress; Trier social stress test

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSPHORIA; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFILE OF MOOD STATES; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF ESTEEM; TRIER SOCIAL STRESS TEST;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYTOCIN; PILOT PROJECTS; PLACEBOS; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 80051967241     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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